Bill Text: IL SB1560 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, in coordination with a statewide association representing a majority of hospitals, to establish and offer a voluntary training that will be recorded and made available on the Department's website to all hospital social workers, clinicians, and administrative staff to inform them of BEACON, a centralized resource for Illinois youth and families seeking services for behavioral health needs, with the goal of encouraging families to seek assistance through BEACON and the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Team. Provides that the training shall include how families and hospital staff can access BEACON, the process once a case is entered into BEACON, and State and community programs accessible through BEACON. Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires a psychiatric hospital to contact a youth or the youth's parents, guardian, or caregiver about the BEACON portal (rather than the Family Support Program and the Specialized Family Support Program) prior to referring the youth to the Department of Children and Family Services because the youth was left at the psychiatric hospital beyond medical necessity. Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team in the Office of the Governor and relevant stakeholders, to report its work and make available resource materials, including model policies and guidance informed by a phased approach to implementing universal mental health screening in schools. Requires the State Board of Education to report its work by September 1, 2026. Provides that mental health screenings shall be offered by school districts to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12, at least once a year, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-04 - Referred to Assignments [SB1560 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB1560-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1560 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Sen. Sara Feigenholtz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/2-3.203
305 ILCS 5/5-5.23
405 ILCS 165/35 new
Amends the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, in coordination with a statewide association representing a majority of hospitals, to establish and offer a voluntary training that will be recorded and made available on the Department's website to all hospital social workers, clinicians, and administrative staff to inform them of BEACON, a centralized resource for Illinois youth and families seeking services for behavioral health needs, with the goal of encouraging families to seek assistance through BEACON and the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Team. Provides that the training shall include how families and hospital staff can access BEACON, the process once a case is entered into BEACON, and State and community programs accessible through BEACON. Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires a psychiatric hospital to contact a youth or the youth's parents, guardian, or caregiver about the BEACON portal (rather than the Family Support Program and the Specialized Family Support Program) prior to referring the youth to the Department of Children and Family Services because the youth was left at the psychiatric hospital beyond medical necessity. Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team in the Office of the Governor and relevant stakeholders, to report its work and make available resource materials, including model policies and guidance informed by a phased approach to implementing universal mental health screening in schools. Requires the State Board of Education to report its work by September 1, 2026. Provides that mental health screenings shall be offered by school districts to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12, at least once a year, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning mental health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
2-3.203 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.203)
Sec. 2-3.203. Mental health screenings.
(a) On or before December 15, 2023, the State Board of
Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral
Health Transformation Officer, Children's Behavioral Health
Transformation Team in , and the Office of the Governor, shall
file a report with the Governor and the General Assembly that
includes recommendations for implementation of mental health
screenings in schools for students enrolled in kindergarten
through grade 12. This report must include a landscape scan of
current district-wide screenings, recommendations for
screening tools, training for staff, and linkage and referral
for identified students.
(b) On or before October 1, 2024, the State Board of
Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral
Health Transformation Teamin , the Office of the Governor, and
relevant stakeholders as needed shall release a strategy that
includes a tool for measuring capacity and readiness to

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implement universal mental health screening of students. The
strategy shall build upon existing efforts to understand
district needs for resources, technology, training, and
infrastructure supports. The strategy shall include a
framework for supporting districts in a phased approach to
implement universal mental health screenings. The State Board
of Education shall issue a report to the Governor and the
General Assembly on school district readiness and plan for
phased approach to universal mental health screening of
students on or before April 1, 2025.
(c) On or before September 1, 2026, the State Board of
Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral
Health Transformation Team in the Office of the Governor and
relevant stakeholders, shall report its work and make
available resource materials, including model policies and
guidance informed by a phased approach to implementing
universal mental health screening in schools. These model
school district policies to facilitate the implementation of
mental health screenings, shall include, but are not limited
to, the option to opt-out, confidentiality and privacy
considerations, communication with families and communities
about the use of mental health screenings, data sharing, and
storage of mental health screening results and plans for
follow-up and linkage to resources after screenings. Guidance
shall include (1) mental health screening tools available for
school districts to use with students and (2) associated

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training for school personnel. The State Board of Education
shall make these resource materials available on its website.
(d) Mental health screenings shall be offered by school
districts to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade
12, at least once a year, beginning with the 2027-2028 school
year. A district may, by action of the State Board of
Education, apply for an extension of the 2027-2028 school year
implementation deadline if the school district meets criteria
set by rule by the State Board of Education, which shall be
based on the recommendations of the report issued in
accordance with subsection (c).
(Source: P.A. 103-546, eff. 8-11-23; 103-605, eff. 7-1-24;
103-885, eff. 8-9-24.)
Section 10. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Section 5-5.23 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-5.23)
Sec. 5-5.23. Children's mental health services.
(a) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, by
rule, shall require the screening and assessment of a child
prior to any Medicaid-funded admission to an inpatient
hospital for psychiatric services to be funded by Medicaid.
The screening and assessment shall include a determination of
the appropriateness and availability of out-patient support
services for necessary treatment. The Department, by rule,

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shall establish methods and standards of payment for the
screening, assessment, and necessary alternative support
services.
(b) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, to
the extent allowable under federal law, shall secure federal
financial participation for Individual Care Grant expenditures
made by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for
the Medicaid optional service authorized under Section 1905(h)
of the federal Social Security Act, pursuant to the provisions
of Section 7.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Administrative Act. The Department of Healthcare
and Family Services may exercise the authority under this
Section as is necessary to administer Individual Care Grants
as authorized under Section 7.1 of the Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act.
(c) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
work collaboratively with the Department of Children and
Family Services and the Division of Mental Health of the
Department of Human Services to implement subsections (a) and
(b).
(d) On and after July 1, 2012, the Department shall reduce
any rate of reimbursement for services or other payments or
alter any methodologies authorized by this Code to reduce any
rate of reimbursement for services or other payments in
accordance with Section 5-5e.
(e) All rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities

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currently exercised by the Department of Human Services
related to the Individual Care Grant program are transferred
to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services with the
transfer and transition of the Individual Care Grant program
to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to be
completed and implemented within 6 months after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. For
the purposes of the Successor Agency Act, the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services is declared to be the successor
agency of the Department of Human Services, but only with
respect to the functions of the Department of Human Services
that are transferred to the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services under this amendatory Act of the 99th General
Assembly.
(1) Each act done by the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services in exercise of the transferred powers,
duties, rights, and responsibilities shall have the same
legal effect as if done by the Department of Human
Services or its offices.
(2) Any rules of the Department of Human Services that
relate to the functions and programs transferred by this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly that are in
full force on the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 99th General Assembly shall become the rules of the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services. All rules
transferred under this amendatory Act of the 99th General

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Assembly are hereby amended such that the term
"Department" shall be defined as the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services and all references to the
"Secretary" shall be changed to the "Director of
Healthcare and Family Services or his or her designee". As
soon as practicable hereafter, the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services shall revise and clarify
the rules to reflect the transfer of rights, powers,
duties, and responsibilities affected by this amendatory
Act of the 99th General Assembly, using the procedures for
recodification of rules available under the Illinois
Administrative Procedure Act, except that existing title,
part, and section numbering for the affected rules may be
retained. The Department of Healthcare and Family
Services, consistent with its authority to do so as
granted by this amendatory Act of the 99th General
Assembly, shall propose and adopt any other rules under
the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act as necessary to
administer the Individual Care Grant program. These rules
may include, but are not limited to, the application
process and eligibility requirements for recipients.
(3) All unexpended appropriations and balances and
other funds available for use in connection with any
functions of the Individual Care Grant program shall be
transferred for the use of the Department of Healthcare
and Family Services to operate the Individual Care Grant

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program. Unexpended balances shall be expended only for
the purpose for which the appropriation was originally
made. The Department of Healthcare and Family Services
shall exercise all rights, powers, duties, and
responsibilities for operation of the Individual Care
Grant program.
(4) Existing personnel and positions of the Department
of Human Services pertaining to the administration of the
Individual Care Grant program shall be transferred to the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services with the
transfer and transition of the Individual Care Grant
program to the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services. The status and rights of Department of Human
Services employees engaged in the performance of the
functions of the Individual Care Grant program shall not
be affected by this amendatory Act of the 99th General
Assembly. The rights of the employees, the State of
Illinois, and its agencies under the Personnel Code and
applicable collective bargaining agreements or under any
pension, retirement, or annuity plan shall not be affected
by this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. All
transferred employees who are members of collective
bargaining units shall retain their seniority, continuous
service, salary, and accrued benefits.
(5) All books, records, papers, documents, property
(real and personal), contracts, and pending business

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pertaining to the powers, duties, rights, and
responsibilities related to the functions of the
Individual Care Grant program, including, but not limited
to, material in electronic or magnetic format and
necessary computer hardware and software, shall be
delivered to the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services; provided, however, that the delivery of this
information shall not violate any applicable
confidentiality constraints.
(6) Whenever reports or notices are now required to be
made or given or papers or documents furnished or served
by any person to or upon the Department of Human Services
in connection with any of the functions transferred by
this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, the same
shall be made, given, furnished, or served in the same
manner to or upon the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services.
(7) This amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly
shall not affect any act done, ratified, or canceled or
any right occurring or established or any action or
proceeding had or commenced in an administrative, civil,
or criminal cause regarding the Department of Human
Services before the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 99th General Assembly; and those actions or
proceedings may be defended, prosecuted, and continued by
the Department of Human Services.

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(f) (Blank).
(g) Family Support Program. The Department of Healthcare
and Family Services shall restructure the Family Support
Program, formerly known as the Individual Care Grant program,
to enable early treatment of youth, emerging adults, and
transition-age adults with a serious mental illness or serious
emotional disturbance.
(1) As used in this subsection and in subsections (h)
through (s):
(A) "Youth" means a person under the age of 18.
(B) "Emerging adult" means a person who is 18
through 20 years of age.
(C) "Transition-age adult" means a person who is
21 through 25 years of age.
(2) The Department shall amend 89 Ill. Adm. Code 139
in accordance with this Section and consistent with the
timelines outlined in this Section.
(3) Implementation of any amended requirements shall
be completed within 8 months of the adoption of any
amendment to 89 Ill. Adm. Code 139 that is consistent with
the provisions of this Section.
(4) To align the Family Support Program with the
Medicaid system of care, the services available to a
youth, emerging adult, or transition-age adult through the
Family Support Program shall include all Medicaid
community-based mental health treatment services and all

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Family Support Program services included under 89 Ill.
Adm. Code 139. No person receiving services through the
Family Support Program or the Specialized Family Support
Program shall become a Medicaid enrollee unless Medicaid
eligibility criteria are met and the person is enrolled in
Medicaid. No part of this Section creates an entitlement
to services through the Family Support Program, the
Specialized Family Support Program, or the Medicaid
program.
(5) The Family Support Program shall align with the
following system of care principles:
(A) Treatment and support services shall be based
on the results of an integrated behavioral health
assessment and treatment plan using an instrument
approved by the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services.
(B) Strong interagency collaboration between all
State agencies the parent or legal guardian is
involved with for services, including the Department
of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of
Human Services, the Department of Children and Family
Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the
Illinois State Board of Education.
(C) Individualized, strengths-based practices and
trauma-informed treatment approaches.
(D) For a youth, full participation of the parent

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or legal guardian at all levels of treatment through a
process that is family-centered and youth-focused. The
process shall include consideration of the services
and supports the parent, legal guardian, or caregiver
requires for family stabilization, and shall connect
such person or persons to services based on available
insurance coverage.
(h) Eligibility for the Family Support Program.
Eligibility criteria established under 89 Ill. Adm. Code 139
for the Family Support Program shall include the following:
(1) Individuals applying to the program must be under
the age of 26.
(2) Requirements for parental or legal guardian
involvement are applicable to youth and to emerging adults
or transition-age adults who have a guardian appointed
under Article XIa of the Probate Act.
(3) Youth, emerging adults, and transition-age adults
are eligible for services under the Family Support Program
upon their third inpatient admission to a hospital or
similar treatment facility for the primary purpose of
psychiatric treatment within the most recent 12 months and
are hospitalized for the purpose of psychiatric treatment.
(4) School participation for emerging adults applying
for services under the Family Support Program may be
waived by request of the individual at the sole discretion
of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.

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(5) School participation is not applicable to
transition-age adults.
(i) Notification of Family Support Program and Specialized
Family Support Program services.
(1) Within 12 months after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services, with
meaningful stakeholder input through a working group of
psychiatric hospitals, Family Support Program providers,
family support organizations, the Community and
Residential Services Authority, a statewide association
representing a majority of hospitals, a statewide
association representing physicians, and foster care
alumni advocates, shall establish a clear process by which
a youth's or emerging adult's parents, guardian, or
caregiver, or the emerging adult or transition-age adult,
is identified, notified, and educated about the Family
Support Program and the Specialized Family Support Program
upon a first psychiatric inpatient hospital admission, and
any following psychiatric inpatient admissions.
Notification and education may take place through a Family
Support Program coordinator, a mobile crisis response
provider, a Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services
provider, the Community and Residential Services
Authority, or any other designated provider or coordinator
identified by the Department of Healthcare and Family

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Services. In developing this process, the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services and the working group shall
take into account the unique needs of emerging adults and
transition-age adults without parental involvement who are
eligible for services under the Family Support Program.
The Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the
working group shall ensure the appropriate provider or
coordinator is required to assist individuals and their
parents, guardians, or caregivers, as applicable, in the
completion of the application or referral process for the
Family Support Program or the Specialized Family Support
Program.
(2) (Blank) Upon a youth's, emerging adult's or
transition-age adult's second psychiatric inpatient
hospital admission, prior to hospital discharge, the
hospital must, if it is aware of the patient's prior
psychiatric inpatient hospital admission, ensure that the
youth's parents, guardian, or caregiver, or the emerging
adult or transition-age adult, has been notified of the
Family Support Program and the Specialized Family Support
Program.
(3) Psychiatric lockout as last resort.
(A) Prior to referring any youth to the Department
of Children and Family Services for the filing of a
petition in accordance with subparagraph (c) of
paragraph (1) of Section 2-4 of the Juvenile Court Act

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of 1987 alleging that the youth is dependent because
the youth was left in a psychiatric hospital beyond
medical necessity, the hospital shall attempt to
contact the youth and the youth's parents, guardian,
or caregiver about the BEACON portal and Family
Support Program and the Specialized Family Support
Program and shall assist with connections to the
designated Family Support Program coordinator in the
service area by providing educational materials
developed by the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services. Once this process has begun, any such youth
shall be considered a youth for whom an application
for the Family Support Program is pending with the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services or an
active application for the Family Support Program was
being reviewed by the Department for the purposes of
subsection (a) of Section 2-4b of the Juvenile Court
Act of 1987, or for the purposes of subsection (a) of
Section 5-711 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
(B) No state agency or hospital shall coach a
parent or guardian of a youth in a psychiatric
hospital inpatient unit to lock out or otherwise
relinquish custody of a youth to the Department of
Children and Family Services for the sole purpose of
obtaining necessary mental health treatment for the
youth. In the absence of abuse or neglect, a

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psychiatric lockout or custody relinquishment to the
Department of Children and Family Services shall only
be considered as the option of last resort. Nothing in
this Section shall prohibit discussion of medical
treatment options or a referral to legal counsel.
(4) Development of new Family Support Program
services.
(A) Development of specialized therapeutic
residential treatment for youth and emerging adults
with high-acuity mental health conditions. Through a
working group led by the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services that includes the Department of
Children and Family Services and residential treatment
providers for youth and emerging adults, the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services, within
12 months after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 101st General Assembly, shall develop a
plan for the development of specialized therapeutic
residential treatment beds similar to a qualified
residential treatment program, as defined in the
federal Family First Prevention Services Act, for
youth in the Family Support Program with high-acuity
mental health needs. The Department of Healthcare and
Family Services and the Department of Children and
Family Services shall work together to maximize
federal funding through Medicaid and Title IV-E of the

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Social Security Act in the development and
implementation of this plan.
(B) Using the Department of Children and Family
Services' beyond medical necessity data over the last
5 years and any other relevant, available data, the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
assess the estimated number of these specialized
high-acuity residential treatment beds that are needed
in each region of the State based on the number of
youth remaining in psychiatric hospitals beyond
medical necessity and the number of youth placed
out-of-state who need this level of care. The
Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
report the results of this assessment to the General
Assembly by no later than December 31, 2020.
(C) Development of an age-appropriate therapeutic
residential treatment model for emerging adults and
transition-age adults. Within 30 months after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st
General Assembly, the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services, in partnership with the Department of
Human Services' Division of Mental Health and with
significant and meaningful stakeholder input through a
working group of providers and other stakeholders,
shall develop a supportive housing model for emerging
adults and transition-age adults receiving services

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through the Family Support Program who need
residential treatment and support to enable recovery.
Such a model shall be age-appropriate and shall allow
the residential component of the model to be in a
community-based setting combined with intensive
community-based mental health services.
(j) Workgroup to develop a plan for improving access to
substance use treatment. The Department of Healthcare and
Family Services and the Department of Human Services' Division
of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery shall co-lead a
working group that includes Family Support Program providers,
family support organizations, and other stakeholders over a
12-month period beginning in the first quarter of calendar
year 2020 to develop a plan for increasing access to substance
use treatment services for youth, emerging adults, and
transition-age adults who are eligible for Family Support
Program services.
(k) Appropriation. Implementation of this Section shall be
limited by the State's annual appropriation to the Family
Support Program. Spending within the Family Support Program
appropriation shall be further limited for the new Family
Support Program services to be developed accordingly:
(1) Targeted use of specialized therapeutic
residential treatment for youth and emerging adults with
high-acuity mental health conditions through appropriation
limitation. No more than 12% of all annual Family Support

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Program funds shall be spent on this level of care in any
given state fiscal year.
(2) Targeted use of residential treatment model
established for emerging adults and transition-age adults
through appropriation limitation. No more than one-quarter
of all annual Family Support Program funds shall be spent
on this level of care in any given state fiscal year.
(l) Exhausting third party insurance coverage first.
(A) A parent, legal guardian, emerging adult, or
transition-age adult with private insurance coverage shall
work with the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services, or its designee, to identify insurance coverage
for any and all benefits covered by their plan. If
insurance cost-sharing by any method for treatment is
cost-prohibitive for the parent, legal guardian, emerging
adult, or transition-age adult, Family Support Program
funds may be applied as a payer of last resort toward
insurance cost-sharing for purposes of using private
insurance coverage to the fullest extent for the
recommended treatment. If the Department, or its agent,
has a concern relating to the parent's, legal guardian's,
emerging adult's, or transition-age adult's insurer's
compliance with Illinois or federal insurance requirements
relating to the coverage of mental health or substance use
disorders, it shall refer all relevant information to the
applicable regulatory authority.

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(B) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services
shall use Medicaid funds first for an individual who has
Medicaid coverage if the treatment or service recommended
using an integrated behavioral health assessment and
treatment plan (using the instrument approved by the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services) is covered
by Medicaid.
(C) If private or public insurance coverage does not
cover the needed treatment or service, Family Support
Program funds shall be used to cover the services offered
through the Family Support Program.
(m) Service authorization. A youth, emerging adult, or
transition-age adult enrolled in the Family Support Program or
the Specialized Family Support Program shall be eligible to
receive a mental health treatment service covered by the
applicable program if the medical necessity criteria
established by the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services are met.
(n) Streamlined application. The Department of Healthcare
and Family Services shall revise the Family Support Program
applications and the application process to reflect the
changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the
101st General Assembly within 8 months after the adoption of
any amendments to 89 Ill. Adm. Code 139.
(o) Study of reimbursement policies during planned and
unplanned absences of youth and emerging adults in Family

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Support Program residential treatment settings. The Department
of Healthcare and Family Services shall undertake a study of
those standards of the Department of Children and Family
Services and other states for reimbursement of residential
treatment during planned and unplanned absences to determine
if reimbursing residential providers for such unplanned
absences positively impacts the availability of residential
treatment for youth and emerging adults. The Department of
Healthcare and Family Services shall begin the study on July
1, 2019 and shall report its findings and the results of the
study to the General Assembly, along with any recommendations
for or against adopting a similar policy, by December 31,
2020.
(p) Public awareness and educational campaign for all
relevant providers. The Department of Healthcare and Family
Services shall engage in a public awareness campaign to
educate hospitals with psychiatric units, crisis response
providers such as Screening, Assessment and Support Services
providers and Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services
agencies, schools, and other community institutions and
providers across Illinois on the changes made by this
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly to the Family
Support Program. The Department of Healthcare and Family
Services shall produce written materials geared for the
appropriate target audience, develop webinars, and conduct
outreach visits over a 12-month period beginning after

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implementation of the changes made to this Section by this
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly.
(q) Maximizing federal matching funds for the Family
Support Program and the Specialized Family Support Program.
The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, as the sole
Medicaid State agency, shall seek approval from the federal
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within 12 months
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st
General Assembly to draw additional federal Medicaid matching
funds for individuals served under the Family Support Program
or the Specialized Family Support Program who are not covered
by the Department's medical assistance programs. The
Department of Children and Family Services, as the State
agency responsible for administering federal funds pursuant to
Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, shall submit a State
Plan to the federal government within 12 months after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General
Assembly to maximize the use of federal Title IV-E prevention
funds through the federal Family First Prevention Services
Act, to provide mental health and substance use disorder
treatment services and supports, including, but not limited
to, the provision of short-term crisis and transition beds
post-hospitalization for youth who are at imminent risk of
entering Illinois' youth welfare system solely due to the
inability to access mental health or substance use treatment
services.

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(r) Outcomes and data reported annually to the General
Assembly. Beginning in 2021, the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services shall submit an annual report to the General
Assembly that includes the following information with respect
to the time period covered by the report:
(1) The number and ages of youth, emerging adults, and
transition-age adults who requested services under the
Family Support Program and the Specialized Family Support
Program and the services received.
(2) The number and ages of youth, emerging adults, and
transition-age adults who requested services under the
Specialized Family Support Program who were eligible for
services based on the number of hospitalizations.
(3) The number and ages of youth, emerging adults, and
transition-age adults who applied for Family Support
Program or Specialized Family Support Program services but
did not receive any services.
(s) Rulemaking authority. Unless a timeline is otherwise
specified in a subsection, if amendments to 89 Ill. Adm. Code
139 are needed for implementation of this Section, such
amendments shall be filed by the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services within one year after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 101-461, eff. 1-1-20; 101-616, eff. 12-20-19.)
Section 15. The Interagency Children's Behavioral Health

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Services Act is amended by adding Section 35 as follows:
(405 ILCS 165/35 new)
Sec. 35. BEACON Training. The Department of Human
Services, in coordination with a statewide association
representing a majority of hospitals, shall establish and
offer a voluntary training that will be recorded and made
available on the Department's website to all hospital social
workers, clinicians, and administrative staff to inform them
of BEACON, a centralized resource for Illinois youth and
families seeking services for behavioral health needs, with
the goal of encouraging families to seek assistance through
BEACON and the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health
Services Team. The training shall include how families and
hospital staff can access BEACON, the process once a case is
entered into BEACON, and State and community programs
accessible through BEACON.